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The all-in-one self publishing solution (pre-launch)

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Emmanuel Nataf
@emmanuelnataf · CEO at Reedsy
@byosko, thanks for the remark. We're well aware of it and we'll have amazing professionals to help authors deal with the marketing of their books. Regarding the collaborations tools: emails and word documents work, but we can expect better in the 2014, can't we? :) Happy to show you more, lot's of cool things coming!

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Ben Yoskovitz
@byosko · Entrepreneur, investor & author
The real key imo when it comes to self publishing is marketing. The writing and collaboration tools exist (heck, @acroll and I wrote Lean Analytics in Word and it was irritating but not impossible), but the marketing support from publishers is hugely lacking. Secondarily to that is the additional mechanisms that people make money from when publishing a book … See more
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Emmanuel Nataf
@emmanuelnataf · CEO at Reedsy
@byosko, thanks for the remark. We're well aware of it and we'll have amazing professionals to help authors deal with the marketing of their books. Regarding the collaborations tools: emails and word documents work, but we can expect better in the 2014, can't we? :) Happy to show you more, lot's of cool things coming!
Imran Ghory
@imranghory · Growing MarketInvoice, ex-Index Ventures
Definitely an interesting concept, the book industry definitely feels like it's shifting to a self-publishing model and an unbuddling of the services publishers provide seems inevitable. Although I discussed this with a number of publishers at the #FutureBookHack event last month and they generally argued against this happening with the key reasoning being… See more